“The Christmas rush is nothing compared to the shopping blitz that next week will hit stores specializing in vitamins, proteins and other supplements designed to benefit physical workouts. With new year’s resolutions will come a booming demand for any type of enhancement designed to assist those wanting to firm up, trim down, or just get […]
“It has been nearly 10 years since a stroke left Jim Porter with an all-but-useless left hand and a weakened left arm. In the old days, he would have had no options: conventional wisdom long held that after a few months of recovery, stroke survivors never get any better. But in recent years, the stroke […]
“From California to South Africa, the entrepreneurial spirit is flourishing. Enviropreneurs are applying their talents and the tools of the marketplace to converting agricultural land into recreational property, grassbanking, and conserving biodiversity. On these pages, meet a few enviropreneurs in action.” (12/06)
“A typical economic analysis of any sort of government subsidy shows that the costs exceed the benefits (exceptions to this rule accepted in the comments section , unless the subsidies encourage an activity that generates a positive externality. So let’s assume that encouraging U.S. energy production helps relieve our dependence on Middle East oil […]
“If the news in the Stern Review is scary to think about, it’s ultimately a message of hope: It’s not too late to act on global warming — provided we take strong, united global action, starting now and increasing over the next 10 years. Indeed, ‘delay would be dangerous and much more costly,’ the Review […]
“A joint Indian-Chinese team plans to chart remote Himalayan glaciers that scientists fear are rapidly melting because of global warming, threatening the great rivers that give life to one of South Asia’s most fertile regions. The two expeditions, announced Thursday, will take scientists into some of the most remote areas of Tibet to explore the […]
“NASA on Thursday cleared the U.S. space shuttle Discovery for landing on Friday, though poor weather and dwindling supplies could force the crew to divert to a rarely used site in New Mexico. Touchdown remains targeted for 3:56 p.m. EST at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Meteorologists, however, were predicting low clouds and a […]
“Oil prices hovered below $63 a barrel on Friday after falling from a three-month high in the previous session on unusually warm weather in the United States Northeast. U.S. crude was up 15 cents at $62.81 a barrel by 0916 GMT, pausing after a more than $1 tumble from Wednesday’s highest close for three months. […]
“A German farmer attacked police with an axe after they came to his farm to enforce a law requiring that cows to have windows and access to daylight in their stall. Police in Wuerzburg, south of Frankfurt, said officers were sent to collect 17 cows held in a windowless hut which deprived them of their […]
“California’s population growth rate slipped for a sixth year in a row as tens of thousands of residents left for other states, according to new estimates the state released Wednesday. Demographers said many of those who left probably were seeking a lower cost of living. New arrivals from other countries and babies born in California […]
